Camaleón writes:
>> According to Novell, that means it is unkillable short of a reboot. But
>> maybe I can supply the i/o it is waiting for... trouble is I cannot find
>> it. Doesn't show up in top at all. I see no instances of firefox at
>> all. Allegedly it is in the foreground, so shouldn't
Harry Putnam writes:
> I found a pkg for the Solaris OS I'm building on that contains
> floatingpoint.h So I'll be able
> to see if that was the real error or not. But it will be a few hours
> from now.
Yup, that was the problem... after installing
pkg:/system/library/m
Camaleón writes:
>>> How did you run the firefox process, from a console?
>>
>> I don't really remember for sure, but the ps wwaux output mentioned a
>> forum on the winamp web pages so I was probably reading the forum.
>
> :-)
>
> Maybe is that I did not express myself correctly... I wanted to
Darac Marjal writes:
> Sadly, this can't be done in-place, so you'll either need to use mv to
> replace /etc/conf.file with /etc/conf.file.new or repeat the loop (with
> no substitution) to copy /etc/conf.file.new into /etc/conf.file.
Maybe now with bash, but with perl it can be done in place qu
When I run `aptitude full upgrade' Sometimes I see something in the
output saying some number of packages will not be upgraded.
Something like [...] 40 pkgs to upgrade 8 pkgs not upgraded. [...]
(That is not verbatim... just close)
How can I get the pkg names, that are not being upgraded?
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Raf Czlonka writes:
> On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:25:16AM BST, yudi v wrote:
>> I have a Debian PC connected to the Internet via mobile broadband and I have
>> this Internet connection shared with an ubuntu pc via Ethernet connection.
>> Internet connection works fine.
>
> Let me recap:
>
> Intern
Sorry to ask the question in such an off the wall manner.
Recommendation for National Public Radio player
But in briefly googling for this topic I started to see that not all
players can get all streams.
I wanted to make sure any suggestions where software that can actually
be made to connec
Hugo Vanwoerkom writes:
> John Hasler wrote:
>> Walter Hurry writes:
>>> National? What nation? Don't bother to answer; I can guess, since you
>>> did not mention one.
>>
>> How many nations have an institution named National Public Radio? (note
>> the caps: it's a name, not a description.)
>
> W
Greg Madden writes:
[...]
> Looks like there are three streaming options from NPR,
> 1. NPR media player , needs flash, use a browser
> 2. MP3 stream, lots of player apps there.
> 3. Windows Media Player ?
>
> I listen to NPR using Iceweasel & flash in stable.
[...]
Celejar writes:
[...]
I noticed this command posted for another recent thread:
aptitude search ~ahold
I was curious so ran it myself. I was shocked to see quite a bunch of
held packages.. 140 to be exact. Are there any circumstances that
would warrant such a high count?
I'm running wheezy on 32 bit P4 3.02 Ghz an
Charlie writes:
>>You have libavdevice52 installed and held at version
>>5:0.6.1+svn20101128-0.2 which is too old.
>>See your held packages with "aptitude search ~ahold". Try removing
>>your hold with "aptitude unhold libavdevice52" and then try
>>reinstalling xvidcap.
Looking like I may have so
I've purposely not used sound in my linux setups for yrs... never had
much need of sound... and only really needed it for my video editing
work which is done with Adobe tools and therefore all on windows.
Anyway, cutting to the chase... like I said its been literally yrs
since I even thought about
Celejar writes:
> On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:53:43 -0500
> Harry Putnam wrote:
>
> ...
>
>> Celejar writes:
>>
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> > Iceweasel with Adobe Flash plugin works fine here.
>> >
>> > Celejar
>
>> Thank
Charlie writes:
[...]
> Florian Kulzer helped me to debug this a couple of years ago. Very
> comprehensive and excellent run through, but this might be all you need:
>
> amixer set Master unmute
That one seems to have went off without a hitch
> amixer set PCM unmute
amixer set PCM unmute
ami
Celejar writes:
[...]
> Run a mixer (e.g., alsamixer) and check to make sure nothing's muted
> and that the volumes are set to reasonable levels.
Egad, that was it, alsamixer showed the volume being really low.
OK now I've got sound and happily listing to wbez
One thing I don't see is a way
Bob Proulx writes:
> Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Apparently I do not have sound working yet... but at first I didn't
>> see anything at all happening... it took a surprising long time to
>> start to see things happening.
>
> The most common problem people run into is
Lorenzo Sutton writes:
> Q W E Increase left/both/right volumes
> Z X C Decrease left/both/right volumes
>
> You can only set left/right volume if the soundcard supports it for
> that channel. This usually doesn't work e.g. for master, it usually
> does for PCM. You can easily test out
Scott Ferguson writes:
[...]
> If you still have KDE installed...
> use the Kmixer - it should be under the Multimedia section of Klauncher
> (your menu) - or you can start it using:-
> $ kmix
>
> It'll appear in the systray - right-click on it, Show Mixer Window =>
> Mixer => Settings => Config
Scott Ferguson writes:
> If:-
> $ apt-get -s install kmix | grep kmix
> gives you:-
> gives you:-
> kmix is already the newest version.
> kmix set to manually installed.
sudo apt-get -s install kmix |grep kmix
kmix is already the newest version.
> Then try:-
> (and look for error message, and
Scott Ferguson writes:
> I don't know what theme you have running so I don't know the exact
> appearance - the icon should appear as a small speaker:-
> http://christian.esken.de/kmix/screenshots.html
Desktop theme is `oxygen' and I have a darkish image as wallpaper.
A scaled down version can b
Scott Ferguson writes:
> "System Tray" - to the left of "Notification", which is left of the clock.
> Check System Tray Settings (right-click in the System Tray)
> In the left-hand pane select "Auto-hide", in the right-hand pane select
> Kmix and set it to "Always Visible".
There must be somethi
"poenik...@operamail.com" writes:
> Can anybody suggest a Usenet server? I am in the UK.
> Ubuntu has three newsreaders available, one for GNUstep, one called
> pan newsreader
> and another called xpn Newsreader. Which one to use (maybe I should
> try all three).
>
> Sian
One good one... fast an
Scott Ferguson writes:
>> I'm getting pretty confused... you describe things that I just do not
>> see here.
>
> You may not have a System Tray - or you may have it in an unusual
> location (or obscured).
No, I don't think so. See my desktop with 2 instances of emacs, gvim,
and several xterms r
Scott Ferguson writes:
>> Its a reduced image of course but you can see the panel across the
>> bottom.
>
> Kind of...
Try again, I've put an unreduced image of just the bottom and a little
of the screen... full width.
www.jtan.com/~reader/vu/disp.cgi
>>Is that not the `system tray' you sp
Sian Mountbatten writes:
[...]
>> I personally use Pan, but Thunderbird and Icedove also embedd a
>> newsreader.
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> --
>> Camaleón
> Many thanks for your help. I too am using Pan. And I found a news server
> on the web-site www.eternal-september.org which someone suggested.
johny why writes:
> not sure if this is relevant, but for noobs like me, this method
> enables a virtual panning desktop on Debian, from a terminal
> command-line, without need for a xorg.conf:
Debian wheezy here.
> xrandr --output VGA1 --rate 60 --mode 800x600 --fb 1280x1024
> --panning 1280x1
Sian Mountbatten writes:
>>From time to time, my wheezy system pops up a message to the effect
> that I should update my system (10 packages). How do I do that?
Find `update manager' in our menu system and click it to run updates.
Other wise (Being in an X session is required) become root in a
Running updated wheezy
Does any other firefox user see this phenomena:
Running Firefox 7.0.1 When I navigate to this specific page I see
really massive resources being pulled. It is listed it `top' as being
Xorg, but it only happens when I run firefox and try to load this
page:
www.verzonwr
Walter Hurry writes:
> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . copy it
> into the plugins directory (/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins in my case)
> and set the permissions appropriately.
Anyone; where is the appropriate plugin directory for konqueror
dpkg -L konqueror|grep plugin
/u
Harry Putnam writes:
> Running updated wheezy
>
> Does any other firefox user see this phenomena:
>
> Running Firefox 7.0.1 When I navigate to this specific page I see
> really massive resources being pulled. It is listed it `top' as being
> Xorg, but it only happens
"John A. Sullivan III" writes:
[...]
>By the way, I am also running Squeeze and not Wheezy.
> The iceweasel pid still shows up as firefox and not iceweasel - John
It turns out, I get the exact same response with iceweasel too.
So it must be something local... but what on earth could cause
Camaleón writes:
>
> Unless you meant:
>
> http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/index.html
>
>> As soon as I kill the tab or some other way, stop loading that page. It
>> all goes away so clearly somehow the Xorg resource pull is due to
>> firefox at that page.
>
> The page is plenty of javascript
Camaleón writes:
>> I've been logging on to verizonwireless periodically for a good while
>> and never saw this kind of pull down. Only this new page seems to be a
>> heavy hitter.
>
> You can also try to load the same site with another browser and see if
> you experience a difference with it :
Scott Ferguson writes:
> On 23/06/11 16:09, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>
>>
>> Is there a source for a `tarsnap' pkg
>>
>> (http://www.tarsnap.com/index.html)
>>
>> that is accessible with `aptitude'?
>>
>
> Not according
Camaleón writes:
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html
> epoch
> This is a single (generally small) unsigned integer. It may be omitted,
> in which case zero is assumed. If it is omitted then the upstream_version
> may not contain any colons.
>
> It is provided to al
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes:
[...]
>> What does that non-sensical sounding explanation mean? Its not as if
>> it is explained at the URL cited.
>
> It is a version override. For an epoch of "n", *any* version without an epoch
> or with an epoch that is lower than "n" will be considered
Tom H writes:
> You can also use "nmcli" to take down and bring up your NIC.
Can you show a usage of bringing up/down the network?
With this in /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf
[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile
[ifupdown]
managed=false
That does mean that ifupdown is not in cha
Tom H writes:
>> [main]
>> plugins=ifupdown,keyfile
>>
>> [ifupdown]
>> managed=false
>>
>> That does mean that ifupdown is not in charge .. right?
>
> No. It means that ifupdown is in charge rather than NM - as long as you
> have the interfaces listed in "/etc/network/interfaces". See my pre
Sian Mountbatten writes:
> I have been trying to get an email client which would access my
> web mail. I've tried
> kmail -- which simply does not retrieve the mail
> balsa -- which asks for an SMTP address (I don't have SMTP)
> and I am now using emacs23.
>
> Can anybody tell me how to confi
Andrei POPESCU writes:
> On Jo, 27 oct 11, 15:08:57, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> I noticed this command posted for another recent thread:
>>aptitude search ~ahold
>>
>> I was curious so ran it myself. I was shocked to see quite a bunch of
>> held packages.
Sian Mountbatten writes:
> Having loaded gnus into emacs23, in the group buffer I keyed ^
> and got a list of servers. Two entries caught my attention:
>
> {nnimap:Opera} (denied)
> {nntp:nntp.aioe.org} (opened) (agent)
>
> Why was Opera denied? Will there be a log anywhere? The *Messages*
> buff
Walter Hurry writes:
> On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:12:01 -0200, Ismael Scalcon wrote:
>
>> But it's still opensource, so the source code is free to download and
>> compile. The guys at CentOS do it, they get all the source code for RHL,
>> remove the Red Hat branding and distribute it.
>
> And the guy
Searching with `site:debian.org' in google with keywords `how' and
`nfs'. I don't really see what looks like a full HOWTO walk thru.
The wiki site (wiki.debian.org/NFS) seems to just point off to ancient
HOWTOs elsewhere.
Changing my search terms by dropping the `site:' bit and using the
keyword
Dan Ritter writes:
[...] snipped useful input... thanks
> Doing NFS4 exports is a little harder, but you can get better
> access-control. Google for "nfs4 exports debian" to find a
> howto.
Is there any other reason to use nsf4? Faster...? or .. whatever?
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Dan Ritter writes:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 01:34:47PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> On one site (the one cited above) I noticed said something about
>> having to change kernels. I'm currently running wheezy with
>> 3.0.0-686-pae. Will that need to be changed?
>
&
Alberto Luaces writes:
>> Here is my .gnus file:
[...]
>> (setq imap-log t)
>> Here are the messages from my *Messages* buffer:
[...]
You've gone beyond my tiny store of possibly helpful input except to
suggest once more that you will definitely get expert help on this
question if you post it
Scott Ferguson writes:
I've only responded to this one question just yet because I'm working
from your other input to get this done... thanks.
> That's not a lot of examples - what did you want to use if for?
Exchange of files between debian desktop and solaris zfs servers.
So it will be both
Andrei POPESCU writes:
> I would suggest you run 'aptitude safe-upgrade' first and then try
> 'aptitude full-upgrade'. Don't worry, aptitude will present all changes
> to you before applying. If you don't like or understand what you see
> just copy-paste it here and we'll have a look.
It happ
Scott Ferguson writes:
>> Exchange of files between debian desktop and solaris zfs servers.
> Nested?
> ACLs?
>
I'm not sure what you're asking there... Don't know what Nested means
in this context... but as for ACLs, well no... there is no need for
that in my setup... its a single user sort of
Arno Schuring writes:
> What does the following show:
> $ aptitude search ~ahold
>
> This should probably give you the list of 135 packages. You can release
> the held packages by using the same syntax:
> # aptitude unhold ~ahold
Yes it does... thanks for the unhold stuff with aptitude
[...] Sn
Some of the letters that appear in aptitude output are not explained
inside the aptitude interface with the ? key.
Uppercase A comes to mind, as in
aptitude search ~ahold
[...]
ihA apache2.2-bin - Apache HTTP Server common binary files
[...]
Is it auto install or is that lowerc
Andrei POPESCU writes:
> /usr/share/doc/aptitude/README
Thanks for that:
I could still use a little push though... I've scanned thru 3977 lines
and according to my editor emacs, I am only 50% thru the document.
So far and have not found it. I see the uppercase A shown in many
places but so fa
M-L writes:
> I certainly appreciate it very much and am probably not the only one.
>From OP.. hear hear
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Andrei POPESCU writes:
> Oh, sorry should have given you a few hints, since it's quite hidden:
> see chapter 2 "aptitude reference guide", section "Managing packages",
> sub-section "Accessing package information", specifically the paragraph
> explaining the 'webmin' example (line 1856, 23%).
I've asked this here due to this being such a well informed bunch.
Please do not shoot... I will go away shortly.
Can anyone tell me if there is a usenet group where books such as
Daniel Yergin's new book `The Quest' About `the quest' for energy
sources thru time and into the future. Would be d
George writes:
> Might I suggest "awesome" window manager? It uses almost no resources,
> can be manipulated entirely with the keyboard (although it also has
> complete mouse support), can be customized extremely easily (although
> the defaults are sane so it is by no means necessary to customize
I'm just getting started setting up bppc and I want to experiment with
putting the data store on a zfs filesystem. (A solaris host running
Openindiana with zfs file systems)
I'm installing bppc on Debian (wheezy) and thought I'd mount just the
storage pool on an nfs share that resides on the solar
I decided to try out backuppc and set it up for a trial... decided it
way more complicated and overdone for my needs and uninstalled it.
Only it didn't really get uninstalled. I don't remember now all the
steps I took but do recall it involved reinstalling it at some point
to try to get it cleanl
>From atitude full-upgrade
[...]
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
syntax error: unknown user 'backuppc' in statoverride file
Can the `stateoverride' file mentioned be edited? If so, where is it?
Searches of /etc/ and /var/ come up dry.
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Rob Owens writes:
> You could try:
>
> aptitude reinstall backuppc
>
> and see if that gets you anywhere.
Thanks, I did mention in OP that I could neither install nor remove.
Surely there is someway to get rid of the pesky stuff.
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Brian writes:
> On Wed 23 Nov 2011 at 05:15:40 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
>>syntax error: unknown user 'backuppc' in statoverride file
>>
>> Can the `stateoverride' file mentioned be edited? If
Running wheezy
My updates were held up for a few days because of a problem involving
backuppc not uninstalling properly... now solved.
So now I've ran the update gui. During this update 187 pkgs were
involved. One of them was gcc-4.6. So I now have 4.5 and 4.6
installed.
I noticed that a new g
Camaleón writes:
>> 2) Should it be considered a bug that grub files are written when boot
>>is not mounted. Seems like if the routine notices (which it does)
>>that those files are absent, should there not be further code to
>>check for boot being mounted?
>>It seems it should n
Alex Mestiashvili writes:
>> 3) About etc resolv.conf being rendered useless during update: That
>>two seems like it should be bug
>>
> Could you check that you don't have resolvconf installed ?
> if yes than you should configure it or remove ...
>>I pulled out an old backup with the
Alex Mestiashvili writes:
> Can't really imagine why /boot shouldn't be mounted ..
> of course it is possible , but upgrading grub without having /boot
> mounted sounds for me like shooting himself in the leg .
I haven't kept boot mounted for yrs, and I hadn't noticed that grub
was to be
Camaleón wrote:
>> > If the package is installed and the config file needs to be updated the
>> > upgrade routine uses to ask what to do (keep the old file, compare both,
>> > replace it with the nre one...). If the partition where the file lies is
>> > not mounted then it's up to the admin use
I keep two major directories available thru samba to win7 machines on
my lan.
A peculiar thing happens when ever I first access them after a reboot
on windows. (I think a reboot of linux or even a restart of samba
would cause the same thing).
When, in wind7 gui, I click on the shares, I'm prompte
Wayne Topa writes:
[...]
> I have only been using Debian since 1993, 18 years, and do not recall
> ever having boot 'not' mounted. This is on syatems where I had boot
> on a separate partition and, currently, everything on one partition.
I'll defer here. As I mentioned... I only tinkered with
Bob Proulx writes:
>> But even with that, yes, it was sloppy not to catch it, but isn't that
>> just the kind of place where a warning of some kind might be well
>> placed.
>
> It is okay if you want to keep your /boot not mounted and only mount
> it when needed. That's fine. But I think it is
Bob Proulx writes:
>> How does the system boot up if /boot is not mounted?
>
> You don't need /boot mounted in order to boot. It only needs to be
> mounted in order to be updated. Booting happens before the operating
> system is loaded and so those files are not needed at operating system
> tim
I haven't rebooted wheezy for a while... and there have been many
updates .. I'm not sure which ones have caused this problem but when
bootup starts I get to grub and immediately a prompt rather than a
selection screen.
It shows grub version 1.99 ?? something.. so is that grub2... It must
be since
Arnt Karlsen writes:
>> set root (hd0,1) (in grub1 that would be hd0,0)
>> linux /vm
>
> .._here_ is where you wanna tell grub about your initrd,
> it (/boot/initrd?) should match your /vm .
>
>> boot
gackk .. I've spent too many yrs booting gentoo with no initrd... I
just skipped right o
Johann Spies writes:
> On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 03:38:22PM +0200, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> I'm bunrning a systemRescue cd now... but any suggestions will be most
>> welcome.
>
> Booting with a live CD (like systemRescue) or the standard Debian
> Install CD will
Harry Putnam writes:
> Arnt Karlsen writes:
>
>>> set root (hd0,1) (in grub1 that would be hd0,0)
>>> linux /vm
>>
>> .._here_ is where you wanna tell grub about your initrd,
>> it (/boot/initrd?) should match your /vm .
>>
>>>
Brian writes:
> On Mon 05 Dec 2011 at 09:13:39 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> For future reference... how does one bring a hybernated computer out of
>> hybernation gracefully. And more important how does one disable
>> hybernation entirely.
>
> GMOME? KDE? XFC
Brian writes:
> On Mon 05 Dec 2011 at 08:44:51 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> When I run update-grub, it appears to be working but ends with
>> something akin to an error:
>>
>> root # update-grub
>> Generating grub.cfg ...
>> Found background
First let me say, I'm not interested in switching mta's.
I want to use gmails' smtp server as Smart Host for my single user
debian box running sendmail-8.14.4
I'm hooked up to an ISP called direcpath.tv in Atlanta that uses gmail
smtp servers for its clients with addresses like rea...@direcpath.t
Scott Ferguson writes:
> You don't show your authentication settings eg.:-
> define(`CERT_DIR’, `/etc/mail/certs’)
> define(`confCACERT_PATH’, `CERT_DIR’)
> define(`confCACERT’, `CERT_DIR/ca-bundle.crt’)
> define(`confCRL’, `CERT_DIR/ca-bundle.crt’)
> define(`confSERVER_CERT’, `CERT_DIR/sendmail.
Harry Putnam writes:
> Scott Ferguson writes:
>
>> You don't show your authentication settings eg.:-
>> define(`CERT_DIR’, `/etc/mail/certs’)
>> define(`confCACERT_PATH’, `CERT_DIR’)
>> define(`confCACERT’, `CERT_DIR/ca-bundle.crt’)
>> define(`conf
Harry Putnam writes:
> So after dozens of small edits and restarts and makemaps ... cutting
> to the chase:
>
> /etc/mail/authinfo
>
> (password obfuscated)
> ,
> | Athinfo:smtp.gmail.com "U:root" "I:hputn...@gmail.com" "P:??XX??" &quo
Running Wheezy
Can anyone suggest pointers, urls, or coaching toward getting an
m-audio USB Fast Track Pro (external sound card) working?
(Please do not reply just to suggest google).
When I run `alsamixer' it lists the Fast Track as one of the sound
cards available. When I choose it, alsamix
Rob Owens writes:
>> However, when I attempt tp play something with `mplayer some.wav', I
>> get no sound.
>>
> You may need to specify which sound card to send/receive the sound
> through.
>
> To see all your sound devices, run:
>
> aplay -l
>
> Figure out what card # and device # your m-audi
Scott Ferguson writes:
> On 03/01/12 01:39, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Running Wheezy
>>
>> Can anyone suggest pointers, urls,
>
> Yes - but...
>
>> or coaching toward getting an
>> m-audio USB Fast Track Pro (external sound card) working?
>>
Kevin Ross writes:
> On 01/02/2012 07:12 AM, Rob Owens wrote:
>> aplay -d hw:1,0 some.wav (for card #1, device #0 -- adjust as necessary).
> That should be an uppercase -D (lowercase -d is for setting a delay).
>
> Glad you got it working anyway, though!
Hee hee, no wonder it `stalled right the
I'm sorry since I asked this question a while back but am not finding
the answers now... search.gmane.org only turns up the same question by
me from 2008.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user/342622
Googling brings up this same thread as the first hit.
But apparently the package names
Wayne Topa writes:
[...]
> Forget this. I was working on an xserver problem and my Old Mind went
> dead. :-(
Hehe... got a good chuckle out of that... That very thing is why I had
to post the query When I hit that error... my OLD MIND went dead.
Not sure its even recoverable hehe
Chris Davies writes:
> Harry Putnam wrote:
>> When I run this configure command:
>> ./configure --with-xft --with-x-toolkit=lucid \
>> --prefix=/usr/local/src/vcs/bzr/test/
>
>> I get this final error:
>
>> | configure: error: You seem to be ru
Chris Davies writes:
[...]
> Very strange. I get 2,660,000 results, and the second is the one to
> which I was referring: package libgtk2.0-dev. (Did you perhaps include
> the quote marks? I didn't.)
>
Yes with the quotes. I assumed that was your intent.
>>> | sure you have development files
Bob Proulx writes:
> Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Which development and image libraries needed to build emacs-24
>> Can anyone offer a suggestion of what pkgs might be missing.
>
> A good place to start is with the build dependencies for emacs23.
>
> # apt-ge
Michael Heerdegen writes:
> Hello Harry,
>
> just for the case you didn't know this: there is also an emacs-snapshot
> package for Debian, here:
>
> http://emacs.naquadah.org/
Thanks... good to know.
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I'm looking for branches of very hard dense woods, like rock maple,
american hornbeam, Iron wood, Lignum Vitae, and any very heavy wood.
I want to make a variety of very heavy walking sticks. Its become
Can anyone tell me if there is a debian oriented repository somewhere
that has moneydance software?
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Running wheezy on P4 intel cpu 3.06 Ghz 2gb ram
kde desktop
I rarely have ran the gui tool synaptic and normally do things with
`aptitude'.
I haven't noticed any particular system sloth. Nothing unusual
anyway.
I happened to be looking at the openoffice.org wiki and started to
follow the instr
Ashton Fagg writes:
> On 21 January 2012 10:55, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> However, if I start synaptic it immediately pegs resources (as viewed
>> in `top') around 92-95 percent us.. And there it stays until I close the
>> partially open synaptic gui.
>>
>> At
Running Wheezy and kde plasma desktop
I notice whiptail hogging cpu and decided to get rid of it and return
to the package it is replacing `dialog'.
aptitude remove whiptail... offers a few decisions, and I made the ones
that replace whiptail with dialog.
None the less, whiptail is still here ho
Running wheezy - kde plasma desktop
I want to get rid of pulseaudio. I almost never even use sound in
linux and I see it always chugging away at 5-8 % cpu. That seems a
bit extreme some how.
But anyway I don't need it.
aptitude remove pulseaudio
Offers what appear to be pretty ridiculous sol
Bob Proulx writes:
>> None the less, whiptail is still here hogging away at 75-80 percent
>> cpu.
>>
>> When `aptitude remove' leaves the nasty bugger behind what is the
>> procedure to finally be clear rid of it?
>
> # apt-get install procps
>
> # pkill whiptail
>
> Or use 'killall' if you
Claudius Hubig writes:
>>Things like uninstalling gnome-core. Isn't that a bit dramatic just
>>to get rid of pulseaudio?
>>
>> Remove the following packages
>> 1) gnome-accessibility
>>
>> 2) gnome-core
Scott Ferguson writes:
> I use KDE (on Squeeze) and Pulse rarely uses more than 2% even when
> networked to multiple boxen.
Interesting, so likely local config problems.
> Not that I'd call 5-8% CPU "chugging" anyway (chugging means the CPU is
> at close to 100%).
I never heard that... In fact
> $ apt-cache show gnome-core
>
> gnome-core is really only a meta package depending upon the stuff
> ‘central to gnome’. Removing the meta package will not remove
> anything else, unless you use, for example, apt-get autoremove.
>
> It might therefore be helpful to check the dependencies of gnome-
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